On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:43:36AM -0700, Peter Norby wrote: >I really hope that I never have to send my camera in for service, but >my 20D has already started to lock up (twice now) after 3 months of >trouble-free shooting, and a friend who recently ordered one received >a DOA unit w/ shutter problems.
I have a giant tree in the form of dp/YYYY/MM/DD that contains pictures by day. Having dealt with Windows and a couple of Nikon P&Ss, followed by my Canon 300D that has multiple file naming schemes depending on which phase of the moon I offload my pictures in, I just don't expect anything from the vendor provided filenames. As a result, everything is sorted off the EXIF data. Once day I borrowed Warrn's 10D and used it beside my 300D and I did have a filename conflict, so I just renamed all the files to HHMMSS and called it done. For further info.... Beside the dp tree which stands for "digital pictures" I make an index tree that contains low quality thumbnails no larger than 640 on a side, a dvd tree which is an exact copy of dp broken up into DVD sized chunks for burning, a crw tree which is only the crw and cr3 files in DVD sized chunks, and lastly a dng tree, which is all the dng files in DVD sized chunks. dp/YYYY/MM/DD/*.[jpg|crw|cr2|dng] index/YYYY/MM/DD/*.jpg dvd/ii/YYYY/MM/DD/*.[jpg|crw|cr2|dng] crw/ii/YYYY/MM/DD/*.[crw|cr2] dng/ii/YYYY/MM/DD/*.dng Every image gets at least 2 DVDs burned of it as soon as possible, and if it is really important, 2 CDs as well. I plan on a shelf life of 3 years (at most) for DVDs since I buy cheaply, so I keep things on spinning disks at all time. Once I convert crw and cr2 into dng, and have backed them up a few times I purge them from the spinning disk, however, under the assumption that Photoshop will read DNG far longer than it will read crw and cr2 files. I think the dvd tree currently has 38 dvds indexed. -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *); * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
